HIHC was founded
in 2014 and is based in the rural village of Kamutur, Bukedea Region in Uganda.

I was born in
Bukedea and raised by my widow mother, after the death of my father in 1986. All
I saw in life was misery. I trained as a primary school teacher and later became
a Social Worker, during my training I
majored in rural Development and Gender.

Having
attained a successful career, I was looking to a happy married life with the anticipation
of three children. Indeed, we got three children: Walter Ediot, now 12 years old, but the
second and third each lived only for 2 hours and died in the Hospital in 2012
and 2014 respectively.

The death
of my daughter and son, left me less of life and little meaning for everything.
Thoughts however came to me: there could
me more people like me out there who no-one knows about and yet they are living.
Such thoughts inspired the birth of "Holy Innocents Health Center". The
location is very rural and progress is measured inch-by-inch, day-by-day. Indeed HIHC has become a place to provide hope and life in this rural place of Kamutur area.

It is our
goal to graduate from being a Health Centre to become a Rural-Based Hospital
with fully-adequate facilities to provide quality health-care in the resource-constrained environment of Bukedea. We started by supporting the mothers and
children who come to seek our care, by checked their health daily. We
serve in the very poorest of communities,
where it is our role to start to give them hope by administering a social and
preventive healthcare programmme.

The volunteers from Hernia International and
Surgeons in Action who have come to HIHC
(in December 2017, and April and September 2018) have given this community hope.
Many adults and children have been provided with surgical operations that
otherwise would have been unaffordable for them. Their operations were for free.
As the community becomes more healthy, we are sure that they will become more productive
and thus enterprising, changing the outlook of the whole community they live
in.

My job is tough "I have to find the resources
to keep HIHC going ahead. I need
likeminded people to work with and thus I act as the true engine of the
hospital" Working with Hernia International and Surgeons in Action
our goal is to deliver Health To All as a basic human right.

Moses Aisia

Chief
Executive Officer

Holy
Innocents Health Center, Level IV

Hernia International is a 100% volunteer organisation.Andrew Kingsnorth brings experience of over 17 years humanitarian
work in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, South America, SE Asia and
India, including the establishment 10 years ago of Operation Hernia.